Day 6-9 - Updates becoming less frequent now!

Obviously due to being in the middle of the jungle, giving updates is difficult but now is a good time so here it is for you all!
Over the past few days the camp has been improved and even rebuilt! Toshi had his 21st birthday, that big boy!... he wished for a pony but it's yet to come. A lot of our new friends came including Dillon, one of the workers at Iwokrama, and Phenton, a legend in his own right who attempted to teach me how to make his world famous bush brew. After lovingly adding the eggplant peel, yeast, water and sugar to a plastic bottle it all blew up sending aubergine shrapnel all over the road and bringing back my repressed memories of my time in 'nam. A good time had by all however London dry gin has now been renamed 'poison' by the locals.

With the EPA yet to have been fully processed the only past times are improving camp and our cooking skills... I however have undertaken butterfly catching under the careful guidance of Toshi and have somewhat surpassed him by catching a Morpho achilles (for those of you who dont know, it looks ace).
Dillon is having his 21st birthday this evening to which we were all invited however Toshi and myself have had to return to Georgetown to finalise the EPA application. All i can say about that is that I hope everyone is drinking and having fun on our behalf... I know we are on theirs!

Everyone in the area has been extremely friendly including the loggers up the road, the workers at Iwokrama and the members of Fairview an Amerindian village, inviting us to gatherings left, right and centre (tic toc tic toc!)

As for biology the only thing we can do is look at the animals and get used to identifying them in the wild... for myself, I'm sampling the air... by smelling it... taking some preliminary readings!

So for those worried parents and lovers that are unable to sleep at night through fear of losing their little darlings, we dont yet have malaria or snake bites... and Emma and myself are still yet to be bitten by ANYTHING!... I guess the only worry is that we might be corrputed by Wilson and Phenton's seductive dance moves!

Over and Out!
Mark (Princess) Brown